Connected (2008)

Original title

保持通話

Directed by

Benny Chan

Genre

action film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

16

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 108 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A single father gets a phone call from a woman who has been kidnapped by corrupt Interpol agents. He must try to help her while evading the kidnappers.

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What happens

Connected (traditional Chinese: 保持通話; simplified Chinese: 保持通话) is a 2008 Hong Kong action film, and a remake of the 2004 American film Cellular co-written, produced and directed by Benny Chan. The film stars Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Nick Cheung, and Liu Ye. Connected tells the story of Bob (Koo), a single father who receives a distressing phone call on his cellular phone from Grace Wong (Hsu), a woman who has been kidnapped by a gang of corrupt Interpol agents who have a hidden agenda. The film began development at Warner China Film HG, the Chinese production arm of Warner Bros., who felt that a remake of Cellular would reach out to Hong Kong's cell phone user population, and decided to hire Benny Chan to develop a screenplay for the film. Chan and his screenwriters spent two years working on the script. For Connected, Chan wanted to improve on the previous film by making the characters and the situations in his remake seem more believable. Principal photography took place in Hong Kong. Connected was released in Hong Kong on 25 September 2008. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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